However, Breitbart makes it sound as though CAS has endorsed HI's rebuttal and has reconsidered its stand on the IPCC consensus, which the academy previously supported. This is not the case. CAS was kind enough to respond to an email query I sent them with the following:

(Note: as usual, you can read it easier if you click on the image)

So, CAS has NOT changed its mind re the facts of AGW, and indeed whatever cooperation took place was between one branch of CAS and HI, not the former organization as a whole (its governing body, as it were).

Once again, the folks at Heartland have wildly exaggerated events, if not lied about them.

Note: The "mistaken" news release announcing the translation has been pulled from the UCAS website. Perhaps the CAS is distancing itself from the "Lanzhou branch"?

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At least the CAS is willing to publish and allow the reader to determine without rhetoric. Even NASA has multiple arms that do not necessarily agree on this subject, and in peer reviewed literature. So too should the CAS.

Any names would be great, but probably difficult to get, not only due to the language barrier… The only climate deniers from China I know so far are some Cathay Institute members and Global Coolists Lin Zhen-Shan & Sun Xian from Nanjing University; Ding Zhongli (CAS vice president) also seems to have a climate "skeptical" view. None of these is from Lanzhou though.